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Ruggerfest 51 Tournament Rules

As Aspen Ruggerfest ends one half century and begins another this September 14-17, the tournament committee has rewritten the rules to conform to those used in most other tournaments nationwide.  In the past few years the number of complaints about teams poaching players for finals matches, using players who did not qualify for their age bracket, and players competing on more than one team within the same bracket have spiked.

In order to make the competition fairer specific procedures will be adopted for all teams. The specifics of the new procedures, which will be applied this year and enforced by both the Tournament Committee and the Referee Committee, will be sent out to all registered teams with their invites..

To see the draft of the new tournament rules please go to : http://aspen-ruggerfest.com/tournament-rules/

To make comments please send an email to aspenruggerfest@gmail.com

 

 

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October 2, 2017 0 Comments Uncategorized

For Love Not Money

The Aspen Ruggerfest Committee has decided to not offer prize money, after experimenting with it in past years. The idea to offer prize money was to see if it would effect interest in the tournament in the atmosphere of burgeoning professionalism in the USA. After observing the competition and talking to various attendees, the committee decided that offering prize money was not in the best interests of the tournament, that Ruggerfest is not about the professional model. The committee wishes  to maintain the original intentions of the founders of Ruggerfest 50 years ago. Then Eastern Rockies Rugby Football Union President Terry Fleener wrote a letter to  Steve Sherlock, the founder of the Gentleman of Aspen RFC, stating  that  Aspen would be a great place to have a ‘festival of rugby’ where teams could assemble to celebrate their sport over the weekend with play and revelry. Professionalism runs on money, amateur play runs on passion.

 

 

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